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The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
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Golden Cake
/4 cup
butter
1
Yolks 5
eggs
7
/8 cup flour
1
/2 cup
sugar
1
/4 cup
milk
1
1/2 teaspoons
baking powder
teaspoon orange extract
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Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and yolks of eggs beaten until thick and
lemon−colored,
and extract. Mix and sift flour and baking powder, and add alternately with milk to first
mixture.
Omit orange extract, add one−half cup nut meat cut in small pieces, and bake in individual
tins.
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Mocha Cakes
Bake a sponge cake mixture in sheets. Shape in small rounds, and cut in three layers. Put
layers
tube.
together with a thin coating of frosting. Spread frosting around sides and roll in shredded
cocoanut. Ornament top with frosting forced through a pastry bag and tube, using the rose
Begin at centre of top and coil frosting around until surface is covered. Garnish centre of top
with a candied cherry.
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Frosting. Wash one−third cup butter, add one cup powdered sugar gradually, and beat until
creamy. Then add one cup Cream Filling which has been cooled. Flavor with one−half
teaspoon
vanilla and one and one−half squares melted chocolate.
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This frosting is sometimes colored pink, yellow, green, or lavender, and flavored with rose,
vanilla, or a combination of almond and vanilla. Large Mocha Cakes are baked in two round
layer cake tins, each cake being cut in two layers. Layers are put together as small cakes. The
top is spread smoothly with frosting, then ornamented with large pieces of candied fruits
arranged in a design, and frosting forced through pastry bag and tube.
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Chapter XXXI − CAKE
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